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Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signs HB 804, the Louisiana Energy Protection Act, into law barring new climate-change civil lawsuits in state court

Louisiana Closes Its Courts to Climate Lawsuits, Then Carves Out Its Own Parishes

Governor Jeff Landry signed HB 804 into law on Thursday, barring climate-change civil suits in Louisiana state court. A late Senate amendment grandfathered the parish suits the oil industry actually feared, leaving

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

A wildfire burns through forest in New Mexico, the kind of dry, beetle-stressed landscape that increasingly turns into catastrophic fire

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

A new state and federal survey of 14 million acres of New Mexico forest found tree mortality tripled in 2025, with beetle-killed conifers up 211 percent. The pinon-juniper system that defines the

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA satellite data showing warm Kelvin wave in the Pacific Ocean signaling El Nino 2026

India’s Monsoon Season Opens Under an El Niño That IMD Says Will Only Strengthen

IMD confirmed El Niño onset and forecast monsoon rainfall at 90 percent of the long-period average, the lowest projection since 2015. With Mumbai's reservoirs at 12 percent and the Indian Ocean Dipole

June 13, 2026

Climate·News

A water aqueduct under drought conditions, illustrating the kind of supply stress now reaching the East Coast as Virginia, North Carolina and Connecticut tighten restrictions

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

Virginia hit 38 percent extreme drought this week, Durham is enforcing mandatory cuts from Monday, and Connecticut's governor has declared a Stage 2 advisory for three counties. The Mid-Atlantic is starting to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

California Governor Gavin Newsom attends a news conference during the UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, after Trump-era rollbacks of state emissions rules

EPA Sends Four More California Emissions Rules to a Congress Already in the Repealing Mood

The EPA transmitted four California air-pollution waivers to Congress on Thursday, opening them to Congressional Review Act repeal. The first three the agency sent in 2025 were nullified within months, every one

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

Wind turbines silhouetted at sunset in a field near Cimarron, Kansas, where Pentagon reviews have stalled new wind projects

Wind Industry Sues the Pentagon, Saying Quiet Reviews Have Frozen $47 Billion in Projects

Nine renewable groups sued the Defense Department in Oregon, saying Pentagon national security reviews have effectively frozen wind permits across 21 states, jeopardizing 106 projects worth $47 billion. The lawsuit calls a

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

Pollution rises from a ship cruising past the Port of Long Beach in San Pedro, California, where tankers and container ships enter and exit

Shipping’s Climate Leaders Cut Emissions Last Year and Still Fell Further Behind

The 32 shipping firms that volunteered to track their carbon cut emissions intensity in 2025, and the new Sea Cargo Charter report still finds them 11.6 percent behind the climate trajectory they

June 12, 2026

Business·Climate·News

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who attached a repeal of the Roadless Rule to a wildfire bill that cleared his committee

As the West Braces to Burn, the Senate Votes to Open Roadless Forests and Gut Fire Science

A Senate committee voted 11-9 to strip protection from 60 million acres of roadless national forest, folded into a wildfire bill, the same season the Forest Service is closing 57 of its

June 12, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

Tourists use umbrellas to shield themselves from intense sun outside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia during a summer 2025 heatwave

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Seventy scientists put human-caused warming at 1.37C last year and the carbon budget for 1.5C at about three years of emissions. The Paris ceiling the world promised to defend is now projected

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

People wade through a recreational vehicle park flooded by a king tide near Corte Madera in Marin County, California

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

Floods that coastal planning treats as one-in-a-century events are now about 12 times more likely, two new studies find, with human-driven sea level rise behind most extreme water days. The math underneath

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

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Louisiana Closes Its Courts to Climate Lawsuits, Then Carves Out Its Own Parishes

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

India’s Monsoon Season Opens Under an El Niño That IMD Says Will Only Strengthen

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

EPA Sends Four More California Emissions Rules to a Congress Already in the Repealing Mood

Wind Industry Sues the Pentagon, Saying Quiet Reviews Have Frozen $47 Billion in Projects

Shipping’s Climate Leaders Cut Emissions Last Year and Still Fell Further Behind

As the West Braces to Burn, the Senate Votes to Open Roadless Forests and Gut Fire Science

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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